What is the most odd item you've wrongly received on an order?

I bought some product for my hair on Amazon last year.

It turned up late and in a plastic bag from Royal Mail saying "sorry your package was damaged". My hair product was fine and unharmed but it seems someone slipped some poppers into the box!
 
Didn't order anything/no one said they were sending me anything but I received an empty parcel earlier this year. No name on the parcel but my correct address and the house is only two years old so definitely meant for here. Never got to the bottom of that one.

Also saw the other day that someone sent a Steam Deck off to valve for repair and received it back plus a turkey fryer shortly after!
 
petridish said:
Didn't order anything/no one said they were sending me anything but I received an empty parcel earlier this year. No name on the parcel but my correct address and the house is only two years old so definitely meant for here. Never got to the bottom of that one.

Also saw the other day that someone sent a Steam Deck off to valve for repair and received it back plus a turkey fryer shortly after!
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You were given some fresh air.
 
petridish said:
Didn't order anything/no one said they were sending me anything but I received an empty parcel earlier this year. No name on the parcel but my correct address and the house is only two years old so definitely meant for here. Never got to the bottom of that one.

Also saw the other day that someone sent a Steam Deck off to valve for repair and received it back plus a turkey fryer shortly after!
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Likely someone trying to pull an ebay scam ( ie get something delivered to someone at a certain postcode).
 
About a decade ago, my wife got a second Barbour jacket along with the one she ordered.

She tried to tell them but they would not cover the return postage and essentially told her to keep it.

Unfortunately it was too small for me but her dad has it and it's still going strong to this day.

Personally, nothing I can recall
 
We didn't order anything but last Christmas a package arrived addressed to us from Amazon with about a dozen hardback childrens books which I'm guessing wouldn't have been cheap.

We decided the easiest and best course of action would be to donate them to a local childrens charity . . . .
 
I ordered a really limited edition of an album from my favourite band - artbooks, poster, signed stuff etc.

Missed the delivery so went to the Royal Mail depot to collect it. Had my name and address on the label so in my excitement in the car with my parents (couldn't drive at this point) I ripped the parcel open to find a box which I opened to find a box full of lingerie and other 'promiscuous' items...

Went back to the depot and right enough, they did have my actual parcel but somehow the one I opened ended up having my details on it, Christ knows how - the boxes were roughly the same size so I wondered if there was an issue with a label and they had to re-print it at the depot and stuck it on the wrong box because half the bar code was missing off mine. I must have been about 16 years old at this point so the embarrassment hit me like a shovel in the car even though it wasn't what I'd ordered! :D
 
petridish said:
How does that work then? Makes it look like they have proof of postage to someone and can't be blamed for the item not turning up?
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Happened to me. Years ago I ordered an Amazon gift voucher off a random person on ebay with little feedback (rather naive of me in hindsight). It never turned up, but the tracking showed it had been delivered. Managed to get the number of the house it was delivered to from my local RM delivery office (not sure if the guy in there should have told me but he did).

I then knocked on that person's door (they lived a bit further down the street), and they said they got a random letter with paper tissue in it recently.

So yes, i believe the plan is to just deliver nothing to someone nearby, in the hope ebay sides with them.
 
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